Thursday, January 29, 2009

If you were to stand under this picture and pivot half a turn to your left, you would look out the back door and see the very scene that is in this photograph, except now everything is covered in snow.

I turned the camera around and shot the wall on the other side of the darkroom. It's just a piece of sheetrock I nailed up, so as to have somewhere to put stuff like this. The rest of the room is just covered with black plastic.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

I have pictures stuck all over on all the walls of my darkroom. Most of them were test prints to determine correct exposure under the enlarger. Here is a sample of one wall.The top picture shows a portion of the same wall along with a glimpse of my homemade pinhole camera.

Monday, January 5, 2009

1: Sky Glider at Iowa State Fair2: The Giant Slide at Iowa State Fair3 Saddle in Horse Barn at Jasper County Fair4: Alice getting a Corn Dog at Iowa State Fair5: Cattle at Jasper County Fair6: Jasper County Courthouse

I fitted an "Arrow" (Diana Clone) with a shutter from an Ansco folding camera, allowing shutter speeds from 1/300 sec. to 1sec. plus bulb, with a cable release thread and electronic flash sync. By gluing a filter ring to the front of the lens I can attach Kodak Series VI filters and lens hood.

About Me

Hoop

I'm a camera tinkerer, kind of like a mad scientist with low tech cameras. A lot of the cameras I use are cobbled together pieces of other cameras.
I enjoy old and new toy (Holga, Diana, Kodak Brownies,etc.) and vintage film cameras along with pinhole, although I do occasionally venture into digital.
The name Hoop was my Dad's nickname from early in his childhood, and it stuck with him all his life.
He re-ignited my passion for photography and vintage cameras when he gave me his Yashica Mat 124G and his Aires Viscount 35mm Rangefinder. It's his Beseler enlarger that is the main piece of equipment in my darkroom. So in honor of Dad, I call myself Hoop. I've recently added a Nikon D90 to my collection of cameras. I won't be tinkering with it though.